Oliver Drills Ducks
For Comeback Fray
With Touted Bruins
? By WALLY HUNTER
University of Oregon’s Webfoots skimmed through a
dummy scrimmage last night on Hayward field in rounding out
their second day of preparation for what will be a comeback
attempt against UCLA s Bruins in Portland Saturday.
Oregon's Ducks who have taken heartily of the bitter pdl
of defeat once this season, raced through drills last night de
signed to put the quietus on the greased lightning offense of
the Los Angeles ball club. Speed
on both offense and defense was
the keynote of the practice session.
The incomparable speed of Coach
Bert La Brucherie’s men is the main
problem that the Ducks will have
to cope with if they expect to
tumble the Uclans from the na
tion’s slim list of undefeated teams.
In pounding their victorious way
through a six game schedule, thus
far this season, Bruin speed afoot
has sent coast sports writers scur
rying for the nearest dictionary in
search of adjectives fit to describe
the phenomenal swift of anything
labeled UCLA.
Excellent Passing
Though Coach La Brucherie has
drilled his athletes well in the fun
damentals of scoring forays afoot
he has not overlooked the airlanes.
Today UCLA can do either almost
equally well. The LA lads .have
powered their way to 19 touch
downs on the ground and have
taken to the air for 13. This, in
spite of the fact that the Bruins
have used three running plays to
every overhead attempt.
In the 43 to 0 Southern Cali
fornia-Oregon fiasco, Oregon
pride wasn't the only thing that
was injured and Duck Left Tackle
Chuck Elliott and Eight End
Wayne Bartholemy will bear this
fact out. Elliott and Bartholemy
both received injured legs in the
encounter and their condition is
still doubtful. Behemoth Elliott
is almost a clncli to be bench
locked when the Ducks and Bru
ins cavort. Bartholemy’s leg is
improving and he will likely see
action. Left end Hymie Harris,
who took the SC journey but did
not see action because of a prac
tice injury, is scheduled to be on
deck Saturday.
Only Duck faces missing last
night were those of Ends Tony
Crish and Dan Garza, and Guard
Jayvees Drill
For OSC Tilt
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Line Play Good
in Medford Game
Jayvee mentors, John Warren
and Kay Segale, pared their squad
through a sharp tackle and dummy
practice Tuesday in preparation
for their second tilt with the Ore
gon State Little Beavers. The
game will he played November 16
at Eugene.
Warren and Segale both agreed
that the squad showed great im
provement in Saturday's game at
Medford over their previous show
ing against Oregon State.
Tackles Lou Robinson, Dean
Sheldon and Bob Roberts all turned
in a good game. The line on the
whole outplayed the SOCE for
ward wall through the entire game.
Their charging was faster and their
tackling harder.
Few Injuries
The feam came through Satur
day’s tilt with minor injuries to
Bob Sherwood and Paul Person.
Sherwood received a badly bruised
shoulder although this has not kept
him from regular practice.
The November 16 game will be
the last game of the season for
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Jim Berwick. Both Berwick and
Garza were absent because of ill
ness. Crish, who broke his leg early
in the season, has been showing
improvement of late and is expect
ed to be back in uniform for the
Washington game.
Sports Staff
Sports Staff:
Bernie Hammerbeck
Bill Stratton
Wally Hunter
Larry Lau
Fred Taylor
A1 Pietsehman
Bob Bradlee
Don Gruening
Don Fair
—EMERALD photo by Don Jones.
THRILL OF A LJFE TIME . . .
One of Oregon's most enthusiastic fans is Mike Wise, age 8, shown above receiving the autograph of Half
back Jim Newquist (left). That jacket will be the pride of the neighborhood. Newquist’s running mate, Bob
Reynolds (right) is explaining to the future “Iron Mike’’ the science of football.
Ernie Johnson Hurt
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 5.—(AP)
Speedy Ernie Johnson may be
missing from the University of
California at Los Angeles grid
lineup when the Bruins play Ore
gon at Portland Saturday.
Johnson came out of the St.
Mary’s game with a stiff knee.
Johnny Koesch and Skip Rowland
will alternate in Johnson’s half
back spot.
2>on Stanton
PiaAhin Peuieiv....
One of Tex Oliver’s outstanding
tackles is 220 pound Don Stanton.
The six-foot one-inch lineman has
been one of the main cogs in the
Duck line this season and is another
of the grid men returning for more
service in future years.
Stanton played prep ball for Jef
ferson high school in Portland, the
same team that Halfback Bob Rey
nolds starred on. As a tackle on the
high school club, Don played
against Arnold Weinmeister, now
one of the big men on the Washing
ton football team.
Besides the three years experi
ence with the prep club, Don has a
year of frosh ball at Oregon to his
credit and a year of rugged compe
tition with the Corpus Christi navy
grid club in 1945. The navy outfit
lost only one game that year and
Stanton was an active reason for its
impressive record.
BA Major
A sophomore, Don is a business
administration major now, but is
undecided when it comes to plans
after graduation in 1948. He expects
to enter some business enterprise,
but hasn't selected the most appeal
ing one yet.
Before receiving his honorable
discharge on November 14, 1945,
Stanton served three years in the
navy as a pilot, instructing students
in trainers. As an instructor, he
didn’t leave the states, but was
kept busy pounding the information
into his wards’ heads.
The touchy subject of the recent
USC fiasco was next on the quiz as
Don readied himself for yesterday’s
intensive practice. “Our defeat was
due to an accumulation of things,
all of them wrong. We just didn’t
have it, and seemed to be mentally,
physically, a n d psychologically
“cold” for the encounter,” was his
comment on the Los Angeles game.
He continued, “It was just a hot
team that was clicking against a
cold team and they couldn’t do any
thing wrong. They have a good
club, but they are not that good, by
a long ways.”
Scouts on the USC-Oregon tiff
uphold Don's contention, as they
claimed that USC wasn’t excep
tionally impressive in their win
ning. but Oregon was impressive
in its showing of poor defensive and
offensive work.
Most of the team viewed the
UCLA-St. Mary’s game Friday
night in Los Angeles, and Don was
all praises for the Bruin club, next
on the schedule for the once-winged
Ducks.
UCLA Impressive
“They were fast, very fast, and
the whole team looked impressive,
and had a lot of spirit against the
Gaels,” he noted when questioned
about the effectiveness of the Bru
ins.
St .Mary’s was all Herman Wede
meyer. He was terrific on the of
fense but didn’t show real ball play
ing when on the defense. He just
didn’t seem to care very much. The
Gaels have a fast outfit, but they
didn't have the fire that the Bruins
displayed, and that was the game,”
Don said.
Even though he rates the Bruins
high, Don is not going to say for
sure who is going to win this Satur
day's game at Multnomah stadium.
He would .not offer any opinion on
that game, remarking, “I don’t want
to say anything on that.”
Man invented words so that he
might conceal his thoughts—Tally
rand.
Blue Chip.I Ale 3)auut .
‘War Of The Gods’ Pits
Army Against The Irish
By LARKY LAU
The 1946 giants of collegiate foot
ball, Army and Notre Dame, will
clash Saturday at Yankee Stadium
in New York City before a sellout
crowd of over 78,000. Billed as the
game of the year, it is not a wild
guess to say the two teams could
hav'e drawn a crowd to fill the
mammoth Soldier Field in Chicago
which has a capacity of 200,000.
Dwarfing all games on the Pa
cific Coast, the number three team
of the nation, UCLA, journeys
northward to Portland’s Multno
mah stadium to meet the Trojan
ravaged Webfoots from the Uni
versity of Oregon. Late Tuesday
night reports listed less than 300
seats still available in a stadium
that has a capacity of 30,000.
Number four team in the nation,
unbeaten and untied Georgia,
travels South to Gainsville, Fla., to
engage the Florida ’Gators. . . The
rugged Oklahoma Sooners move to
Lawrence, Kansas, for their tra
ditional tilt with the University of
Kansas. ... At Evanston, 111., the
ruffled Northwestern Wildcats
await the invasion of the Big Nine
leaders, Illinois. ... In Los Angeles,
a hotter-than-a-pistol Trojan eleven
will wage their annual gridiron war
with California. ... At Madison,
Wis., Iowa will meet Wisconsin in
a Saturday clash which has been
tabbed as anybody’s ballgame. . . .
The Blue Devils of Duke, slapped
down in two consecutive contests
with Army and Georgia Tech, will
attempt to get back into the win
column when they entertain, at
Durham, N. C., a much-feared
Wake Forest eleven.
Down in'’gator country^ LSU
is standing by in Baton Rouge,
La., for their game with Ala
bama’s always dangerous Crim
son Tide-In Atlanta, Ga., some
30,000 fans are expected to urge
the Ramblin’ Wrecks from Geor
gia Tech on with many a wild
rebel yell when thje Engineers
meet a none too successful Navy
team there Saturday. . . .
New York City will be the scene
of the annual Penn-Columbia tilt.
Both teams were upset last week,
by Princeton and Cornell respective
ly, and the 33,000 fans who are ex
pected to crowd Columbia’^ Baker
Stadium are in for a lot of foot
ball. . . . The much trampled Gold
en Gophers of Minnesota come home
to Minneapolis for the Big Nine
version of the Idaho-Montana tilt
when they meet an oft-beaten Pur
due team in the Gopher’s Home
coming game. ... At Palo Alto,
Calif., the Stanford Indians, who
squeezed a 0-0 tie out of their tilt
with OSC last week, meet the hard
luck Huskies from the University
of Washington. ...
At Nashville, Tenn., 22,000 fans
are expected to cram Dudley
Field to witness the game be
tween Vanderbilt and North
Carolina State. ... A strong
Kentucky squad will make a
northward journey to tan
with a damnyankee Marquette
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